JAMES HEATHERS
@jamesheathers.bsky.social
please science correctly
if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends
director: medicalevidenceproject.org
the book: forensicmetascience.com
if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends
director: medicalevidenceproject.org
the book: forensicmetascience.com
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
No, you don't know how to go away, do you.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
No, you don't know how to go away, do you.
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Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
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lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study.
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
What has stunned his former colleagues and mentors is the sheer breadth of his apparent deception. He didn’t just tweak a few variables. It appears he invented the entire study.
Genuinely enjoying how much layered wrongness is here.
A kind of beautiful tiered wedding cake of misconceptions.
Just BATHE in the warm rolling folds of daftness.
A kind of beautiful tiered wedding cake of misconceptions.
Just BATHE in the warm rolling folds of daftness.
And then there was Bryan Johnson, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire known for his extreme anti-ageing ‘biohacks’, like receiving plasma from his teenage son.
Johnson, on a quest to live forever, wants “competing for the best biomarkers of anybody in the world” to be something of a new sport.
Johnson, on a quest to live forever, wants “competing for the best biomarkers of anybody in the world” to be something of a new sport.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Genuinely enjoying how much layered wrongness is here.
A kind of beautiful tiered wedding cake of misconceptions.
Just BATHE in the warm rolling folds of daftness.
A kind of beautiful tiered wedding cake of misconceptions.
Just BATHE in the warm rolling folds of daftness.
I’M CLAIMING ALL THE PELAGIC REFERENCES I WIN
OK.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I’M CLAIMING ALL THE PELAGIC REFERENCES I WIN
OK.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
OK.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
DOES THIS WESTERN BLOT LOOK MORE LIKE A FISH OR A SHOE.
NO BEARSKIN!
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NO BEARSKIN!
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After attending the International Research Integrity Conference the past three days, I will be at the AIMOS2025 conference the rest of the week, also in Sydney.
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
AIMOS2025 Conference
AIMOS conference 2025
aimos-inc.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
After attending the International Research Integrity Conference the past three days, I will be at the AIMOS2025 conference the rest of the week, also in Sydney.
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
Get ready for more live posting!
#AIMOS2025
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
I should probably explain this, with context.
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I should probably explain this, with context.
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.
(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)
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So @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“The authors have informed the journal that an auditable replacement dataset has been prepared and will be made available to The BMJ. The BMJ will update this notice and make a decision about what post-publication change to the content is needed.”
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.
BMJ places expression of concern on heavily criticized stem cell paper
The BMJ has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch…
retractionwatch.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“The authors have informed the journal that an auditable replacement dataset has been prepared and will be made available to The BMJ. The BMJ will update this notice and make a decision about what post-publication change to the content is needed.”
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
James Watson was so old that Sharon Begley had his obit ready to go.
(She died herself in 2021.)
I’m not rehashing all the ludicrous offensive shit he believed. You’ve heard it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
(She died herself in 2021.)
I’m not rehashing all the ludicrous offensive shit he believed. You’ve heard it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
James Watson was so old that Sharon Begley had his obit ready to go.
(She died herself in 2021.)
I’m not rehashing all the ludicrous offensive shit he believed. You’ve heard it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
(She died herself in 2021.)
I’m not rehashing all the ludicrous offensive shit he believed. You’ve heard it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
These are mill papers.
Further reading, @reeserichardson.bsky.social may have more:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
... and hilariously a 'bibliometric' analysis that doesn't mention paper mills:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Further reading, @reeserichardson.bsky.social may have more:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
... and hilariously a 'bibliometric' analysis that doesn't mention paper mills:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies - European Journal of Epidemiology
European Journal of Epidemiology -
link.springer.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
These are mill papers.
Further reading, @reeserichardson.bsky.social may have more:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
... and hilariously a 'bibliometric' analysis that doesn't mention paper mills:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Further reading, @reeserichardson.bsky.social may have more:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
... and hilariously a 'bibliometric' analysis that doesn't mention paper mills:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Someday I will not have to write about Sarepta Therapeutics and their ineffective drugs that never should have been approved by the FDA in the first place.
This is not that day.
This is not that day.
Sarepta: Enough, For God's Sake
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Someday I will not have to write about Sarepta Therapeutics and their ineffective drugs that never should have been approved by the FDA in the first place.
This is not that day.
This is not that day.
It’s early November and no I will not be providing context.
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It’s early November and no I will not be providing context.
People often miss something about these headlines.
1. This is bone idle useless image manipulation - detectable, obvious after you learn to look for it.
2. It’s a lower bound.
The phrase is “a minimum of 40% of this literature contains easily detectable image manipulation”.
Sleep well.
1. This is bone idle useless image manipulation - detectable, obvious after you learn to look for it.
2. It’s a lower bound.
The phrase is “a minimum of 40% of this literature contains easily detectable image manipulation”.
Sleep well.
"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images."
We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.
We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.
40% dierstudies naar hersenbloedingen bevat afbeeldingen die niet kloppen, ontdekten René Aquarius en Kim Wever @radboudumc.bsky.social. Sommige artikelen zijn mogelijk geheel of deels verzonnen. Zorgwekkend, zegt ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social.
Voor @voxweb.bsky.social.
www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/honde...
Voor @voxweb.bsky.social.
www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/honde...
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
People often miss something about these headlines.
1. This is bone idle useless image manipulation - detectable, obvious after you learn to look for it.
2. It’s a lower bound.
The phrase is “a minimum of 40% of this literature contains easily detectable image manipulation”.
Sleep well.
1. This is bone idle useless image manipulation - detectable, obvious after you learn to look for it.
2. It’s a lower bound.
The phrase is “a minimum of 40% of this literature contains easily detectable image manipulation”.
Sleep well.
Something this funny can't be inappropriate. It's just a concept made up by Big HR to funnel work to shiftless psychology graduates.
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Something this funny can't be inappropriate. It's just a concept made up by Big HR to funnel work to shiftless psychology graduates.
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if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
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"Keep posting videos of me being vulnerable, and I’ll start posting videos of you eating your feelings."
I’m Just a Fucking Cat
Calm your tits. I understand your obsession, but you people are out of control. I’m cute. I’m silly. I’ve got attitude. I get it. But wake the hell...
buff.ly
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Keep posting videos of me being vulnerable, and I’ll start posting videos of you eating your feelings."
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They were already suspended, now they're delisted.
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Embattled journal Cureus delisted from Web of Science, loses impact factor
Clarivate has removed the mega-journal Cureus from its Master Journal List, according to the October update, released today. The move means Cureus will no longer be indexed in Web of Science …
retractionwatch.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They were already suspended, now they're delisted.
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...
Cureus has had an outsized impact on the sheer volume of nonsense research for years, and I wonder if WoS felt like they had a choice.
I won't miss it.
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/27/e...